slyppe

And thus resoning with my selfe, I thought that those thinges which had but slender assurance, woulde lightly slyppe away, and that it would not be hard to deceiue, where was no watchfull regarde: and to bolde spirites, Fortune was not altogether fayling: and besides, that it was harde to knowe a mans thought.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

4.48.2: As branch or slyppe bereft from whe&osb; n&csb; ce it growes

"Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557